The competition for EVM dominance has played out over the past several years, accelerating recently as L2s have taken center stage (Solana aside)
Right now, Base appears to be leading by most meaningful metrics
Some of my thoughts:

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Just now, a historic "closed-door" event occurred in the AI community.

Anthropic has officially banned access to OpenClaw using its own subscription plan!!!

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[OpenClaw] This means that thousands of users who rely on OpenClaw for improvements...

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